The current trend for referring to anything removed from something as a delete.
As in, 'I did a fuel evap delete on my motorcycle', or, 'I deleted the side stand switch' or something.
When did we stop simply, taking stuff off?
... this. Look at this bullshit.
The text is arguably forgivable if you don't want the hit of completely redesigning buttons but WTF is going on with the numbers?
Try the unparalleled usability of the V40 controls. Note - all these intuitive buttons are approximately level with your ankles.
Where's the "can I just just buy this shit and leave already" button? No, I don't to subscribe to a newsletter about shoes for ****'s sake, like this is an area of interest for many people? I don't want wet feet and that's just cost me north of a hundred quid so stick your mailing list up your arse. WHY IS "BUY NOW" DIFFICULT? Do you have a userbase who buys slippers on a weekly basis? Well, it's Thursday, best browse for sandals.
"Are you a boy?" is literally the first thing (why?!) on your drop-down form fields, which is an annoyance in itself because it has no bearing on anything. Even if it was tied into the commerce system - it is not - I could be buying a gift.
Actually,
Why are we putting up with this "title" dogshit at all?
Back when I had a work-provided fuel card my signature went via M. Mouse and D. Duck to simply X because no-one cares. What are they comparing my scrawl to?
Why do I/we/anyone need "Mister" as an explicit question on a website? Is the website owner planning on (HEY GDPR!!) searching for all the misters in their database? Why should a shoe shop be interested in a doctorate? Why is this a discrete field on a form AT ALL?
Are you so precious about having gone to school that you need it recording when buying footware? The real reason, of course, is the website going "we've always done this."
I don't have a honorific; I don't want one. I have precisely two names outside of legal documentation requirements. The second you see here on STW, the first is Alan. Several people know me exclusively as Cougar, a few don't actually know my given name at all. I'm not Sir or Mister or (screw Paul Simon) "Al." When call centres persist with Sir after me explicitly requesting them to use my preferred address it makes my shit itch. These are not my names. I'm not being a special snowflake, I just don't recognise them. Would you hear your own name across a crowded bar? Would you pull "MISTER SMITH" out of the ether?
We (rightfully) ask people to respect pronouns. So, the **** is this nonsense? It serves no purpose. Am I at risk of getting confused with Mrs Alan? We're not yet married, though she used to be (and I technically still am) so what title are we hanging on her then? Are we Vaguebooking "Ms Cougar"? Mzz? Christ, WHY EVEN IS THIS NECESSARY AT ALL?! Is her existence defined by mine?
Pointless archaic idiocy. Stop it. "Name" should be a single free-form text field because other cultures exist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Lord Cougar III BSc, Esq.
People at work in a big shared workshop putting the golf on the radio for most of the day. Really loud.
The frikkin golf ffs!
Just when I thought you couldn't get more mind numbing than the usual, absolutely appalling selection of commercial radio stations that I have to endure daily.
THANK GOD for Bluetooth headphones.
How do people come to be so self-centred? Amazing.
I have tried fighting aginst thew stupid need for a title cougar. As a result I got letters addressed to "(no title) TJ Again" Yes they really went there and used "no title" as a title.
Who TAF listens to golf?
"He's hit the ball... it's gone up in the air... it's come down again, reasonably near the hole..."
Watching 'sports,' alright I'm not a sportsball fan but I can kind of understand. Audio only? That's deeply strange. Read the back page of the newspaper tomorrow.
Yes they really went there and used "no title" as a title.
Are you kidding me?! That's both mental and hilarious.
it makes my shit itch
Are you sure you don't have worms? Anyway, it gets my vote for the disproportionately-cross post of the week. Although I haven't clicked the like post on it for obscure-irrational-reasons.
Future tense, the proposed uk identity card is just going to be more excess baggage.
besides all of those other store cards, library cards, etc.
cant they integrate these things onto the smar****ch?
To authenticate, when we present our ID via smar****ch, it could generate a photo on the computer screen at the pharmacists, gp, library.
we’ve already given the dvla our mugshot.
Props to Tesco and Waitrose for letting us scan their Clubcard via smar****ch.
and easyJet for putting their boarding passes on our smar****ches.
Lidls and Morrisons are still dragging their heels in this regard.
i notice that for some bizarre reason, the forum has tossed
a bunch asterisks on the word smar****ch.
People who park their cars by the kerb, then walk around the car, out into the traffic, and open a door to either put something in, or take something out. Sometimes that something is a someone, like a child…
I’ve seen it happen several times over the last week. 😖🤬
Because the swear filter thinks you're trying to say the word ****.
i notice that for some bizarre reason, the forum has tossed
a bunch asterisks on the word smar****ch.
People who park their cars by the kerb, then walk around the car, out into the traffic, and open a door to either put something in, or take something out. Sometimes that something is a someone, like a child…
We have three child seats, one up front and two in the back. If you have any ideas which are an improvement on "open door to remove child" I'm open to suggestions.
DC: people with no mechanical sympathy.
How does a car ragging its absolute tits off at 0.1mph not make you think "hm, perhaps I should consider an automatic"? Or maybe a vacuum cleaner screaming the house down might give you pause to contemplate that this may require further investigation?
It's fine and all, but these are addressable issues. I donated a ~£400 vacuum to the Girl, they said months later it was 'broken,' I went and emptied it for them. If you can't operate a clutch 🤷♂️ don't buy a a car with a clutch?
Because the swear filter thinks you're trying to say the word ****.
I know, it's a load of old bollocks.
Cockermouth, sexist swear filters.
Mrs TJ used to work in advice work and took on cases under the sex discrimination act as it was then. a new computer system was installed. She could no longer access the sex discrimination act to check details as "sex" was caught in the systems filters
Because the swear filter thinks you're trying to say the word ****.
I know, it's a load of old bollocks.
Quite the opposite, actually.
After yesterday, parents at university drop off days. We've all had an early start, a long drive, and are dealing with a variety of emotions. There is not enough car parking, spaces are narrow, lanes are tight, and we are all carrying way more stuff than our darling children will need in the 10 weeks before Christmas, so don't be a dick and kick off at uni staff who are stopping you going the wrong way round their one way system! And don't get me started on families who bring 2-3 car loads of people to add to the chaos, who stand around blocking the walkways snd stairwells. If we can manage with one car and one parent, so can you.
From this morning, why does the time of day and the changing daylight have to affect how well I can see the hairs growing in my ears? Was convinced I'd kept on top of this unpleasant phenomenon with my early morning check, but just noticed this lunchtime that while my left ear is smooth, I can probably plait the tufts that are suddenly visible in the right.
I'd understand it if they were 3. If they're of an age where they're studying for a degree then (disabilities aside) walking for a quarter of a mile shouldn't be a problem and absolutely won't be a concern when that's how far the nearest pub is, which rather negates the 'drop off' problem.
It's hardly the primary school run, they're 18. My university drop-off was grifting through back streets to work out where I could reliably park my own car. The **** are people driving their adult children to the school gates for? Boot the bastards onto the nearest train with a cheery "see you at Christmas!"
The whole point of university is breaking free of apron strings. A mate of mine's lad started in Liverpool this term, he texted his dad this weekend to say he'd just stolen a nice pint glass. Dad couldn't have been more proud.
That many people suddenly forget how to pronounce 'by' when referring to timber sizes.
Example. 'Two be one', 'Two be Four ', 'Three be Two'.
Nothing 'BE' anything.
Happy to be corrected but surely it's just something that's evolved from gruff builders mumbling their orders in timber merchants? 😂
Say BY, or forever feel the force of my 4 be 2 against your face!
Timber's ****ed anyway. "I'd like a length of four by one" - certainly sir, how long? - "three metres." What?
IT'S NOT EVEN INCHES. It's inches prior to shrinkage as the wood dries out. The problem here is that when you say "one" you really mean "two centimetres."
picture the scene......just back from a couple of weeks on crete, spending a few days at our favourite beach. a real 'locals' beach, relatively undiscovered, got a lovely feel to it. lovely shallow sandy beach, dont charge for sunbeds, the local ducks come and have a nosey at you then have a paddle in the sea, kittens come over to see you too so we buy them kitten biscuits and feed them on the sunbeds. the local oldies all come and bring their chairs, sit in a circle under the trees yapping away and drinking raki, the old grandmas go out to sea in their white sunhats and you can hear them cackling away so i like to try and have a yap with them to improve my greek. we're friendly with the local lifeguard, theres a 'seatrack' slide for the disabled to come and have a dip..... sound idyllic?
its been like that for years and we love the peace and quiet of the place. can you guess whats coming? couple of days ago we came back from lunch to find a family of 6 or 7 stereotypical inconsiderate english @rseholes on the sunbeds in front of us. bluetooth speaker blaring out sh1t music, kids screaming, the 'young uns' downing bottle after bottle of mythos getting louder and louder.
totally spoilt the atmosphere, i was laid on the sunbed 'disproportionately cross', thinking how the f did you find this beach, why have you stayed, why dont you just f off!!
now back home and im still rankled by it 😀 thoughts have turned to buying a red 'lifeguard' shirt and red shorts so if it happens next time i can pretend to have some authority and tell any inconsiderate w@*kers that musics banned from the beach, they need to turn it off 😀
i think i need help 😀
Dear Mr Sainsbury,
On my way to work I thought "I fancy having a banana later", by "later" I meant perhaps mid-morning or with my lunch, not in 7 days time! Could you see fit to selling some bananas that are likely to ripen within the current working week?
Yours disproportionately crossly,
V
Trapdoors in scaffold towers. If I catch my patch pocket on the door catch one more time, aaaargh!
2lt milk bottles that leak from the lid when you lie them on their side in the fridge.
This didn't happen previously.
Now it happens.
Also, the new "Full Shop" self service checkouts in Tesco. I don't mind using self service to by a lone green banana, but I'm buggered if I'm going to used one for the weekly shop.
Queues at the staffed checkouts were doubled last night, because nobody wanted to use the new unmanned ones.
I am disproportionately* cross that my new extremely capable MTB has not turned me into a trail shredding, jib-tastic riding God as displayed in all videos of said bike. My crossness is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is the colour of a fire engine and therefore the fastest one available.
*although not surprised.
Trapdoors in scaffold towers.
🎵Don't you open that trapdoooooooooor. Cuz there's something down there, gna gnuh, gna gnuh.🎵
Carry on.
I am disproportionately* cross that my new extremely capable MTB has not turned me into a trail shredding, jib-tastic riding God as displayed in all videos of said bike. My crossness is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it is the colour of a fire engine and therefore the fastest one available.
*although not surprised.
I upgraded my £400 acoustic guitar quite a few years ago to a rather nice £1200 one. Whilst strumming cowboy chords does sound a lot nicer, imagine my dissapointment that I still can't play like James Taylor or Joni Mitchel.
Who the hell lies milk bottles down in a fridge?
My god, we're surrounded by savages.
Who the hell lies milk bottles down in a fridge?
My god, we're surrounded by savages.
I'd there a punch line? Hehe..
Although I once managed to leave a bottle of soy sauce on my fridge shelf, lid not quite on properly and it toppled over when I closed the fridge door...
It made quite a pungent mess!
YouTube content creators who don't know what the difference is between a screw or an Allen headed cap bolt . Be useful for once and say it's a 4mm Allen key that you need at this point
Who the hell lies milk bottles down in a fridge?
Hello!
Not glass bottles, obviously, just the plastic containers. And only if the door pocket is effectively full with other stuff that's already had the lid loosened - like a 1pint glass milk bottle, a carton of fruit juice, another plastic milk carton, bottle of lemonade etc. Which it usually is.
My Plex media server presents the Buckingham Nicks album as being by Fleetwood Mac, despite there being no mention of FM in the MP3 tags. Took me ages to find it.
Things that made me disproportionately cross at the weekend:
(The hills are for everyone, but after an excellent day of rock climbing at a popular Scottish hill...)
1. Drones being flown around the summit
2. Content creators creating content (makeup, cleavage, phone tripods, self-preening)
3. Kids, with adults, throwing stones off the side. Being handed bigger stones by older siblings.
4. Live fag ends dropped on the ground.
5. More drone pilots trying to catch "heh isn't my drone cool" attention.
6. Dog shit in bags.
7. Human shit in trees.
8. Soiled toilet paper littering the path sides.
9. Car tent campers taking up three spaces.
10. Car campers sitting in the car, engine running, swamping the place with diesel fumes.
10 things - so maybe not disproportionate. ARGH.
Upgraded my Mac to the latest version to match the phone. Most of these upgrades are a bit of an improvement but the email client now has changed both the location and image of the 'send' icon. From where it was for about ten years. Arguably it's more logical and in line with what you see on the phone, but I'd going to spend the next few weeks desperately hunting for it.
See also writing last year in the date box on cheques in January. For anyone old enough to remember 😉
6. Dog shit in bags.
This can't be true. All dog owners scrupulously clear up after their pets. I read it on Facebook.
Rip off Britain!
At least it's not artisan sourdough, it'd have more holes than bread and you'd waste half a tub of premium quality margarine trying to butter it 😉
Toilets in theatres. Been to two theatres this week, one built in 1860s, the other 1960s, neither of them had anywhere for inevitable interval queues to form. It was in the lap of the gods whether I was queuing for the gents, the ladies or the ice creams
I'm not a spelling pedant (well, actually I am), but I have to say, seeing [url=?????]"Wordl"[/url] all over this forum over the past months is irritating the **** out of me.
the email client now has changed both the location and image of the 'send' icon. From where it was for about ten years. Arguably it's more logical and in line with what you see on the phone, but I'd going to spend the next few weeks desperately hunting for it.
Does ctrl+enter not send? (Or whatever the Mac equivalent is)
Well b*gger. CMD-SHFT-D so not exactly intuitive (new mail is CMD-N for example) but I can't believe I never checked if there was a shortcut.
I think you can probably work out how I feel about that 🙂
I'm not a spelling pedant (well, actually I am), but I have to say, seeing [url=?????]"Wordl"[/url] all over this forum over the past months is irritating the **** out of me.
Where are you seeing it? I only see it at the bottom of the forum where they're linking to their Wordle-spoof puzzle?
Another week, another load of fruit that my wife says is 'good for her' thrown in the bin just in time for the next batch to be delivered.
amazon sign-in. think i posted a while back asking for help for my wife with 2FA, got sorted somehow and the problems back again but i cant remember how we sorted it last time grrrrrrr......
shes logged out of amazon, knows her password, tries to sign in but it says get a code from authenticator. theres no code in authenticator, we look to see how to get amazon in authenticator but you have to sign in to your account to get a QR code. but she cant sign in because...... 🤬
EDIT: oh and to troubleshoot, it says to enter the OTP sent to her phone. but the OTP never arrives even tho the phone number is correct. she can log in to account on phone, and we've tried disabling 2FA but to do that you have to enter the OTP sent to her phone. but...... 🤬
Rode my Fire Engine Red MTB in dusty conditions with a couple of mates. Trying to find a reason to be DC, maybe because it's dark and soon the trails will turn to sh!t. But I also have beer so I'll have to give the grumpy old man the night off.
@sadexpunk - I had a similar issue with LinkedIn. With great trepidation contacted support and actually it got sorted pretty quickly. Once I'd swerved the FAQ bots.
Well b*gger. CMD-SHFT-D so not exactly intuitive (new mail is CMD-N for example) but I can't believe I never checked if there was a shortcut.
I think you can probably work out how I feel about that
🤣
Generally speaking, I consider the mouse to be a selection tool. The keyboard is usually faster, sometimes considerably so.
One that does irk me is a lack of consistency. Like, some messaging apps will have Enter for a new line and modifier-Enter to send, others have it the other way around for some unholy reason. Facebook is a particular arse for this because if you're writing a new post it's Enter for a new line, yet if you're writing a comment then Enter sends the reply.
Push plates on doors never seem to be where people push. Either that, or people who defiantly push doors open anywhere but the plate 😊
Ps. Yes the door is manky af, but it's in a big workshop with welders etc knocking about.
It's a lovely day, I am increasingly attempting to swap money for time, and as I work for myself this should be easy. However my diary is full of teams meetings leaving the only way to interact with the outside is by looking at it through the window 🙁
Especially annoying as you don't know how many days like this we'll get before it all goes to the poo of the rat.
"Either that, or people who defiantly push doors open anywhere but the plate"
I so wanted to point out your spelling of definitely then realised you had used defiantly correctly. This made me cross.
That it takes a few minutes of waiting outside in the road for a 38 character text message to come through... just so I can login into a website on my desktop PC.
Yet a BBC weather page will load up in a few seconds while outside in the middle of the road without WIFI and only a weak/slow/basic mobile data connection.
Where are you seeing it? I only see it at the bottom of the forum where they're linking to their Wordle-spoof puzzle?
If you post a web URL it appears in the middle of it. Don't tell em it's meant to be spelt like that?! Holy bumholes.
now for the http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/po15
Well that one didn't do it 🙄
How about
Now for the [url=www.bbc.co.uk/weather/po15]weather[/url]
Nope, O I dunno then! :S
Support systems that insist you go through their FAQ page before allowing you to actually talk to someone. Who then tell you that the solution to your problem - that is apparently quite common ("yeah we get that one a lot") is straight forward, but not in their FAQ....
thats 40mins ill never get back
Push plates on doors never seem to be where people push.
Well, the plate is obviously in the wrong place then. Does the workshop employ small children?
TBH, post-covid I actively avoid high-traffic handles; like, coming out of the toilets I'll use the very top or very bottom of a door bar-handle where someone is less likely to have had their paws than the middle. There's little point in me washing my hands just to stick them straight into someone else's piss.
the fact that my phone cant track our flights on google maps like i see other people do.
look over at other people, they have the blue dot over croatia or whatever, i look at mine and nothing. it has location/GPS switched on but nope. i ask them how theyve got the blue dot, they just say it appears automatically. annoyingly last year it appeared on both mine and my wifes maps, just for one flight, so its capable, but nothing since.
tried airplane mode on and off, checked location is on, yep, but....... nothing.
disproportionately cross 😡
I have a GPS watch but I only use it when exercising, and have most of the notification stuff disabled.
I'm helping a mate test a smart-watch app and he's leant me a Samsung watch to use for it. How people wear smart watches without hurling them into the sun, I'll never know.
I'm sure there's settings I can adjust to change how chatty it is, but I'm stunned at how needy it is
- Ooo you've been walking for 10mins, who's a good boy
- Your mate just sent you a message
- You've done 3000 steps today!
- You've just ridden your bike for 3mins, well done!
- You slept for x hours last night.
- Would you like me to save that 3min bike ride for you?
- Your mate's sent another one!
- Shouldn't you get up and move about a bit
- Can you put me on charge please?
It's been like having Clippy attached to my wrist!
People (i.e. neighbours) who park on the grass verge - their whole car, its a wide verge - when there is space to park cars on both side of the road, and still get a bus through the middle. I assume they are (disproportionally) concerned about someone smacking a wing mirror on their way past but totally unconcerned about preserving the small patch of grass and underlying tree roots outside their house. Boils my wee.
Rushing to leave the house as my train is on time, getting to the station 10 minutes later to find its now running 16 minutes late.
And the young lady waiting on the platform next to me - smart professional from the ankles up, but wearing white Crocs.
Well, the plate is obviously in the wrong place then. Does the workshop employ small children?
Don't shoot the messenger 😉
People parking half a cars length from the end on an on street parking zone, either leave enough space for another car or park right up to the end you thoughtless knobs.
The cost of everything in there, you'd think they'd give you the other hair of the bag ffs!
Natwest. Has a Xsolla purchase on my CC. Nothing to do with me so declined it in the app and received all the red warning text and klaxon saying "if you think this is a fraud report it" so spent 5 minutes with the AI slop app Cora who is even more stupid than most of these apps, then got sent to login to natwest on line because you can't report fraud from the app, then got directed to a number which is mostly an ACD telling you to go away and use the app because "they are experiencing a high volume of calls"*
After that and entering various security details through the keypad, we get a message saying "we are doing an upgrade and can't answer any calls" followed by dial tone.
I'm not angry. not really. Just disappointed. Freeze card, go through the same sequence tomorrow. I mean it's a £19.99 charge I declined but if someone had just been scammed for thousands and had that experience you wouldn't be sleeping so well!
*or I suspect they outsourced most of this stuff off shore, cut CS to the bone and pretended their on line rubbish would take up the strain.
Extravagant, wasteful and inappropriate use of kitchen roll. And not the cheap & cheerful stuff either, but the pricey stuff they keep advertising on telly.
- a sheet folded up under a teacup, to catch drips ("cos I hate drips")
- a sheet to dry the worktop after wiping it down with a wet cloth ("cos I hate smears")
- a sheet to dry the sink and drainer after wiping it ("cos I hate drips and puddles of water")
To be fair, the last two have been less of an issue recently, as we now have a teatowel dedicated to wiping worktop, table, drainer etc. But every time I hear the rip of kitchen roll perforation, I wince
because "they are experiencing a high volume of calls"*
The one that grips my shit is "we're experiencing an unusually high volume of calls..." You're not, are you.
Extravagant, wasteful and inappropriate use of kitchen roll. And not the cheap & cheerful stuff either, but the pricey stuff they keep advertising on telly.
I've started buying whatever's cheapest in the supermarket for exactly this reason. The expensive stuff is the same size roll so if the sheets are twice as thick then there's half as many of them. (With apologies to actual maths, I know this is wrong because Circles.)
Anyway. My DC for today: buying shit we already have because she "doesn't have time" to go looking for things. Or indeed seemingly the time to ask me where something is; whilst my immediate short-term memory is shot to the point of probably being ADHD I have a near-photographic positional memory. If she's been cooking I can tell which herbs/spices she's used because they've moved. Someone asked me the other day what my first PC was so I went and got the receipt (from 1993) and scanned it in, I didn't need to go looking for it because I knew precisely where it was.
There are, that I'm aware of, nineteen toothbrushes in this house. Granted, two I use for general cleaning rather than for brushing teeth, and there are three kids she looks after during the week, but that's still 17 brushes for five mouths.
'Can I get', assuming it's not already here. No, you cannot get. The barman can get, the waitress can get. You don't work here. You can have, and the staff will get it for you.
people who suck any left over food/crumbs off their fingers. With real vigour. Then end up with spitty fingers. So they wipe them on their trousers. Who taught you this? Morons.
And people that eat and the fork or spoon clatter into their teeth as they close their mouth around the food. What is that all about? Why are you making excess eating noises. Morons.
The steady stream of (spam) emails telling me I need to visit Alabama.
Oh,an the amount of hair I found with my baguette
😉
Similar to the toothbrushes above. In our house, it's towels. A couple of weeks back, she brought some washing in from drying outside,to leave in the airing cupboard for a while. "I can never find space in this airing cupboard to hang stuff up, or put it on the shelves"
Well, if we didn't have a huuuge fleecy throw, 5 bath sheets, 7 normal sized bath towels, 5 hand towels, 7 sets of duvet covers/sheets/pillow cases, 6 face flannels in there. Plus whatever all that is on the top shelf... between two of us... then maybe I could have some sympathy.
Radio stations playing Friday I'm in Love by The Cure...on a Friday.
Way too obvious, not to mention that it's easily one of their weakest ever songs (Friday afternoon job?) and therefore one of their most commercially successful.
Yes, I am a music snob.
- People who walk along busy corridors starting at their phone (especially in uniform so you should at least maintain a look of professionalism)
- People who walk along corridors side by side who refuse to move into single file when said corridor is very busy, or a member of staff is pushing a large item towards them in the opposite direction
- People who stop suddenly on very busy corridors, engage in conversation and do not move to the side of the corridor, literally standing in the middle whilst a queue of people forms, waiting to move around them
- People who walk out of adjoining corridors onto a main corridor at full speed without looking in either direction first to see if anyone is there
- People who saunter out of adjoining corridors whilst staring at their phones, completely unaware of anyone else around them
- Myself, for expecting everyone else to follow my arbitrary rules whilst a I walk quite fast down a busy corridor (it's very long and I don't get an unlimited break time!)
- Oh, and people who put cool bags in the bloody fridge in the staff room